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June 19, 2006
FON's Varsavsky Plots World of Warcraft: The Movie
Even multi-millionaire entrepreneurs are wannabe Hollywood screenplay writers, at least if FON founder and serial entrerpeneur, Martin Varsavsky, is an indication of such things.
He's too busy with his wireless telco business to do it himself, so he floated the "World of Warcraft" film idea, complete with plot synospsis on his blog. He is also offering to fund an enterprising writer willing to run with his idea.
Varsavsky says he was inspired by listening to Joichi Ito´s stories about the 200 person guild he runs at World of Warcraft. It seems that there are some US soldiers that are actually based in Iraq playing in his guild.
...the Iraqi members of the guild get kidnapped by Al Qaida operatives in Iraq while they play. The gamers can hear what´s happening, one of them speaks Arabic and starts translating to others the kidnapping scene. Everyone at the guild is shocked they stop playing and start a debate. Joichi (i love to turn my friends into movie heroes) decides that the guild has to do something about this and proposes a plan. Guild members will travel to Iraq and find the hostages. The rest of the movie is the rescue. How the guild gets organized to go. Clever tactics blending game and real life. How everyone arrives from the rest of the world to Iraq, how they meet, probably a love story as well, some humor.
Read - World of Warcraft, the Movie (Varsavsky' blog)
Posted on June 19, 2006 11:45 AM | Posted to entrepreneurship | Permalink
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